My NC Wreck Shark Shootout results

[stuartv]

I'm just home from a week in North Carolina participating in the NC Wreck Shark Shootout. It was my 4th year in a row and the first time I've had a photo place in the competition. Woohoo!!!

I hope y'all enjoy looking at 'em 1/10th as much as I enjoyed shooting them!

All were shot with an Olympus E-M10 + Olympus 14-42 f/3.5-5.6 kit lens in a Meikon housing, with a Nauticam WWL-1 wet wide angle lens on the front.

I was diving my rebreather and MAN the difference that made compared to past years on open circuit!

I WILL have a Full Frame camera rig before next year's competition!

I got 2nd place in the Shark photo category with this shot:

None of my other submissions placed, but this is what I submitted in the Wreck photo category. It's not really a wreck photo, so I understand it probably had no chance anyway.

And then these 4 were submitted in the Body of Work category.

 

[scubadada]

Way to go Stuart

 

[Barnaby'sDad]

Very nice. That first picture is really something.

 

[MAKO Spearguns]

Nice pics! Congratulations! Those Sand Tigers sure do look mean!

 

[stuartv]

Nice pics! Congratulations! Those Sand Tigers sure do look mean!

They do! I love it!

BTW, I dove the whole event using my Mako Minimus mask. It worked great!

 

[RyanT]

Congrats, awesome work work Stuart! Your image that placed is especially beautiful!

 

[RyanT]

Oh and given the excellent quality of the images, please note the parasites on the nose of the sharks. I don't know what species they are, but they're quite common on the sharks.

 

[WinfieldNC]

These are some great pics. I take a lot of N.C. shark pictures and these are impressive. Really makes me want a rebreather even more.

 

[stuartv]

Thanks, @RyanT!

Yeah, all the sand tiger sharks down there seem to have those... well, one buddy called them "nose goblins". LOL

I have wondered what they are, but I always forget to ask someone who might actually know.

All of the competition days, I only saw sand tiger sharks. Yesterday was a final day of post-competition diving and we saw a bunch of Sand Bar sharks, as well as Sand Tigers. But, I took the day off from shooting, so I didn't even take my camera on the boat. I don't recall seeing those nose goblins on any of the Sand Bars. But, they were also more skittish, so maybe I just didn't get close enough to any of them to see those. Now I do wonder if they are specific to the Sand Tigers, for some reason.

 

[BoltSnap]

Awesome!!!

What full frame camera are you considering?